Caglar Erteber, Ph.D.

Dr. Caglar (Çağlar) Erteber earned his Ph.D. in Hispanic Cultural Studies and Literature from the University of Arizona in 2025, after completing a B.A. (2008) and M.A. (2011) in Spanish Language and Literature at Ankara University. With over fifteen years of experience teaching Spanish language and Hispanic culture in a variety of academic settings and instructional formats, his teaching is shaped by interdisciplinary training and a sustained engagement with the visual and literary cultures of the Spanish-speaking world.

Research Interests

• Spanish and Latin American Cinema
• Urban and Spatial Studies
• Urban Marginality
• Latin American Visual Culture
• Comic Studies
• The Spanish Transition
• Contemporary Spanish Narrative
• Performing Arts

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“La representación de Madrid como “espacio enfermo” en la novela Tiempo de silencio de Luis Martín-Santos y en la adaptación fílmica de Vicente Aranda,” Letras Hispanas, Volume 20.1, 2024, pp. 20-33.

“Entre la M-30 y los escombros: La urbanización desurbanizada en Colegas (Eloy de la Iglesia, 1982),” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Volume 23, Issue 4, 2022, pp. 471-490.

Book Reviews

The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires, by Agnese Codebò: Romance Quartely, Volume 72.3, 2025, pp.214-215.  

Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film, edited by Susan Larson: Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Volume 27, 2023, pp. 225-227.

The Spanish Quinqui Film: Delinquency, Sound, Sensation, by Tom Whittaker, Hispania, Volume 105, Number 2, June 2022, pp. 319-320.

Conferences

“La visualización de los quinquis de Madrid, los pibes callejeros de Buenos Aires y “los olvidados” de Ciudad de México a través del medio cinematográfico,” Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Bogotá, Colombia, 12-15 June 2024.

“From Self-Presentation in Graphic Novel Form to Self-Representation in Filmic Medium,” Southwest Popular American Culture Association (SWPACA), Albuquerque, NM, 21-24 February 2024.

“Las reflexiones del diseño arquitectónico y urbano en la vida cotidiana bonaerense a través de la mirada fílmica en Pizza, birra, faso (1998) y Medianeras (2011),” Universidad de Alcalá, ESCL/SELC Underground Imaginaries Conference, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 24-26 May 2023.